[Peace-discuss] Meeting murder

[E. Wayne Johnson]

It was stated on the Bill Moyers program last week that Americans have 
lost their capacity for outrage.

Apparently that is not "all" Americans as evidenced here by this irate 
fellow.

(language and attitude not family friendly)

http://tinyurl.com/cmzzs7


C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>     I met Murder on the way -
>     He had a mask like Castlereagh -
>     Very smooth he looked, yet grim;
>     Seven blood-hounds followed him
>
>     --from The Masque of Anarchy, 1819, by P. B. Shelley, following
>     the Peterloo Massacre; Castlereagh was the British foreign minister
>
>
> Barack Obama should stop killing people.  We seem to think that 
> because someone becomes head of government -- particularly the US 
> government -- he can order killing without being liable for murder.
>
> That excuse is not accepted by the million people driven from their 
> homes in northwest Pakistan by terror attacks by missiles from 
> unmanned American aircraft – ordered by Mr. Obama at a rate much 
> greater than that employed by the Bush administration – and attacks by 
> the Pakistani army, demanded by Obama's minion, Richard Holbrooke.  
> It's not accepted in the rest of the world, and it should not be 
> accepted by us.
>
> Meanwhile, killing ordered by this administration goes on throughout 
> the Middle East, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indus Vally, and 
> from the Caspian Sea to the Horn of Africa.  Obama claims to be 
> “stopping terrorism,” but the world knows that that is a contemptible 
> excuse.
>
> The US is instead insisting on control of the Mideast – the source of 
> two-thirds of the world's gas and oil. And not because we need it for 
> ourselves – the US imports very little oil from the Mideast, in spite 
> of the propaganda claims – but because it provides what Obama's 
> foreign policy advisers call “critical leverage” over the countries in 
> Europe and Asia, who are our main economic rivals.
>
> Obama's killings continue that constant American policy, which has 
> remained the same in both Republican and Democratic administrations.  
> Only the pretences have changed.  --CGE
>
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